posted on Oct, 18 2007 @ 08:37 PM
reply to post by citizen truth
Russia's woes began in the early 90's. Their semi capitalism has only abated the bleeding to a small degree, bolstered by their state sponsored
mafia peddling ex USSR military wares.
China is a power. A serious power. Their propensity to stay within their own borders has kept them from taking over. But it is promising to see the
nation they are becoming. Yes, it is a far different way of life, but the labor force concepts that they are using (relative to specialization) is
working out well for them.
The true test will be to see if they can improve their manufacturing sector. Intel is building a plant (with an entire city being built to support
it...everyone in the city will work for Intel). One of my employees (who used to be my teacher...go figure) has a son (whom i graduated with...small
town) that will likely be the site director (or whatever they call them in that company). This is an intriguing occurance, as it represents a
movement away from the manufacturing of our dime store crap, and a movement into the tech field. This is bad for the US. We have sourced our dime
store crap to them (and they have failed miserably to meet our quality standards), and "upgraded" our manufacturing sector into the tech sector.
The Chinese doing this is concerning.
I say all of that to say this:
China will only overtake us if we allow it. Outsourcing has been a benefit to the average joe up until now (yeah, i know...Ohio has been hit hard.
Move to Texas, we have plenty of jobs). Moving the tech sector there while in search of cheaper electronics is dangerous, relative both to the GDP
and electronic security.
So, yes, you are right....given the current state of American sloth, we likely could be taken out fairly easily by China...but not by military
might.
What you must consider is what tricks the rabbit has down his hole. A good start is to look into scalar technologies. The Russians have their own
version, but much more primitive as we have pumped quite a bit of cash, using our scalar technology as the backbone of other technologies (those
things you hear whispers of but never find proof of).
No...i don't think China would do much relative to military force. If nothing else, we have the location (and the knowledge that they cannot
mobilize their troops to that degree without building infrastructure first).